Word: distressingly
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...Haem and first published in Germany a few months ago, she tells of her horrific journey last year to find her mother, who lives in a village in her poverty-stricken homeland. Dirie found spiritual nourishment in her family's courage, faith and humor, but also much to distress her. She writes movingly of Somalia's dire poverty and of the problems caused by the entrenched attitudes of its tribal culture, which keep the country divided and so often in turmoil. Especially troubling to her is how these views ensure that women have few rights and remain subjugated...
...Started: Veterinarians saw a chance to help pets in distress Judgment: When pets are happy, their owners are happy...
...their owners. That fuels some vets' criticism that the treatment is just an exercise in anthropomorphizing the animals. But Dodman, a pioneer in this field, writes of Romeo, a King Charles spaniel that was a compulsive licker. Romeo also barked constantly, to his owner's and the neighbors' distress. Prozac was prescribed, says Dodman, and it kept the puppy from being put down by its exasperated owner. --By Andrea Sachs
These are just the sorts of distinctions that jurists consider when deciding what kinds of speech should be protected against competing interests (such as, say, the desire to prevent distress caused by hearing racial slurs). It would therefore seem appropriate for law students to question whether the statements were offensive enough to warrant proscription and punishment. That, in turn, requires considering each of the statements individually. But the condemnatory chorus rode roughshod over distinctions between them...
...don’t like to be thought of as a garage where people tow their teaching fellows in distress and pick them up at the end of the day,” he said...